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I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.


Maria Grazia Cucinotta

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KAPIL SHARMA I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
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LAURA OSNES I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
DAMIAN LEWIS I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
NAFISA JOSEPH My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
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BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
AALIYAH It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Maria didn't like it. I didn't want to get into it. I was just trying to get myself not to lose my c...
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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ADRIAN MCKINTY I only check my voice mail to get rid of the annoying little icon.
ANONYMOUS I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
BILL FAGERBAKKE Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditionin...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
REBECCA HALL My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
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HELEN CHANDLER I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN Two women guitar players on stage at the same time, ... and it took Maria Muldaur to do it.
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KING TUFF When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ...
JOANNA LUMLEY Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.
LINDA EVANS I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just ta...
REBECCA FERGUSON You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, ac...
STEVE HARVEY I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
HEATH LEDGER I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It...
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STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar less...
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EBON MOSS-BACHRACH I personally am not conscious of my accent.
JARED DIAMOND My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successfu...
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RICK WAKEMAN My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the fin...
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SHINOBU ASAGOE My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop...
ROBERT DE NIRO I still keep my accent.
SAMANTHA FOX From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community the...
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JOHN CLEESE I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
ADAM JONES If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
ALDERMAN MOKROS If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.
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MATT BOMER My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
XAVIER SAMUEL When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
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MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is ...
MARIA MONTESSORI You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a...
MARIA CALLAS While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has be...
MARIA BARTIROMO It's unhealthy to live a life with regrets.
MARIA BARRAGAN When you're an immigrant, you just want a paycheck.
MARIA MARTINEZ I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy...
MARIA SHARAPOVA I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a mor...
MARIA BAMFORD In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more fr...
MARIA SEMPLE The language of the ordinance implies that we're in the business of prostitution rather than massage...
MARIA ROSSI I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who a...
MARIA SHRIVER Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
MARIA MITCHELL Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not
MARIA MITCHELL I’m not the next anyone, I’m the first Maria Sharapova
MARIA SHARAPOVA I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long t...
MARIA SEMPLE Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obs...
MARIA MONTESSORI Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
MARIA CALLAS When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply a...
MARIA SEMPLE Following intuition allows decision and action to be made in the same instant.
MARIA ERVING You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far...
MARIA SHARAPOVA When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good momen...
MARIA SHARAPOVA The ego is the self that is unaware of itself so unless you seek first who you are not, the ego will...
MARIA ERVING The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of...
MARIA JERITZA